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Africa is rich in natural resources ranging from arable land, water, oil, natural gas, minerals, forests and wildlife. The largest reserves of cobalt, diamonds, platinum and uranium in the world are in Africa.

Africa is abundant with natural resources, including diamonds, gold, oil, natural gas, uranium, platinum, copper, cobalt, iron, bauxite and cocoa beans.

Soil is one of the most important natural resources on Earth, being required both directly and indirectly for food production, manufacturing of industrial raw materials, and for generation of energy sources. Soil is essential for the function of ecosystems providing nutrients, oxygen, water, and heat.

The six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people

1. Water. Freshwater only makes 2.5% of the total volume of the world’s water, which is about 35 million km3.
2. Oil. The fear of reaching peak oil continues to haunt the oil industry.
3. Natural gas.
4. Phosphorus.
5. Coal.
6. Rare earth elements.

Unless water use is drastically reduced, severe water shortage will affect the entire planet by 2040. “There will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what we’re doing today”.

2050

According to the new study, the atmosphere will run out of oxygen in about one billion years. The planet will then resemble the so-called Archaen period about 2.8 billion years ago when there was no oxygen gas on Earth – a time before the so-called Great Oxidation Event.

Like trees, plants feed us and give us the oxygen we breathe—and if they were to run out, humans and animals would starve and suffocate. According to New Scientist, oxygen would remain in the atmosphere for quite a while, but we would run out of food long before we’d run out of air.

100 billion years from now, the ever-accelerating expansion of the universe — most commonly called dark energy — will cause all but 1,000 members of the Virgo Supercluster — where our galaxy, along with other members of our local group, reside— to red-shift into oblivion, never to be seen again by astronomers in our …

In 2018, the Planck Collaboration updated its estimate for the age of the universe to 13.772±0.040 billion years.

Assuming that dark energy continues to make the universe expand at an accelerating rate, in about 150 billion years all galaxies outside the Local Supercluster will pass behind the cosmological horizon.

All plant and animal life on Earth need oxygen to survive. According to a new study, a billion years from now, Earth’s oxygen will become depleted in a span of about 10,000 years, bringing about worldwide extinction for all except microbes.